Ice-carrying device



June 24, 1930. J. J. PARKERSON I v1,766,258

ICE CARRYING DEVICE Filed April 25, 1929 VI"v MN amnion JJIPQi-Z'QI'S0M,

Patented June 24, 1930 EFFT T rarest J OSEPH JACKSON PARKERSON,

0F JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA ICE-CARRYING DEVICE Application filed April 25,

This invention relates to a device for use in conveying ice from delivery wagons to refrigerators.

Ice companies engaged in delivering ice to homes, apartment houses and stores have long been confronted with a serious problem in connection with the transfer of the ice from the ice wagon to the refrigerator, because of the dripping of the water caused by the melting ice. The ice usually accumulates dust and dirt in the wagon, and the water melting from the ice falling on the floors in the homes of the consumers is muddy and causes a great deal of complaint. The problem is compli cated by reason of the fact that as a rule in the refrigerators of housekeepers in private homes and apartments the deliveryman must set the ice down on the floor or on a chair or a table while he removes from the ice compartment the ice left over from the previous delivery and food and other articles which have been placed in the ice compartment by the housekeeper. When the ice to be delivered is picked up from the floor or table or chair, there is generally a muddy puddle of water left where it had been resting. Numerous devices have been tried by ice companies to eradicate this trouble and to permit the quick, efiicient, clean and sanitary transfer of the ice from the ice wagon to the ice compartment of the refrigerator.

The object of this invention is to meet these problems.

Another object is to provide a convenient receptacle in which the de-liveryman can break up his ice into small pieces when he is delivering ice to water coolers, etc, as he can wash the ice in the ice scuttle and pour it into the cooler without any water from meltage escaping to the floor or into the cooler.

One sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof in which like reference characters indicate like parts throughout.

This device consists of a boxlike receptacle having two sides 22, one end 3, a bottom 1, and a false bottom 6. The scuttle is so built that while it is being carried, or while it is resting on the ground, the bottom of 1929. Serial No. 358,064.

the device is at an angle from the horizontal, so that allwater flows to the back of the scuttle. Theice'rests upon the false bottom 6, and the waterrunning to the rear of the receptacle, by reason of the angle at which it must at all times rest, flows into the chamber between the false bottom-6, and the actual bottom 1. This chamber is sealed at the front, or upper end, and is open at the back, or rear end. The top edge of the sides 2-2 and the end 3 are flared out slightly as at 11, by means of which the drip from a cake of ice extending above the sides and in contact therewith will be caught.

A handle 10 is attached to so that the receptacle can be carried in the same manner as a coal scuttle or market hasket. The points of attachment are in front of and above the center of gravity of the device so that it will incline backwardly and downwardly when carried. There is also a handle at the back of the receptacle to be used in raising and lowering it when delivering ice.

The receptacle has two very small legs 7, at the two back corners, these legs may consist merely of bulges in the material out of which the bottom is constructed. Another leg 8 is positioned centrally under the front or open end of the receptacle of a lengthto cause the device to incline rearwardly and backwardly when supported thereby. The carrying handle is so balanced that when the device is carried by the handle it will rest at the same angle as when standing on the floor, so that even while being carried, the bottom of the device will be at an angle with the horizontal, with thefront end higher than the rear end.

The true bottom of the receptacle extends 0 ice slides from the receptacle into the ice 0 box.

The piece of ice which is to be delivered is placed in the receptacle, or scuttle, or box,

and the scuttle is carried by the handle in much the same Way that a market basket is the two sides,

carried. The front end of the scuttle being open, the deliveryman places the scuttle up to the ice compartment in the refrigerator where it is to be delivered, and raising the 5 rear end, the ice slides out over the ramp into the refrigerator. Although the ice slides out, yet the water, being contained in the chamber between the false bottom and the bottom of the receptacle, cannot escape because the front end of the chamber is sealed. After the ice is delivered, when it is desired to remove the accumulation of water, it is only necessary to raise the front end and pour the water out.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a receptacle having a bottom, side and back walls and a false bottom spaced from the main bottom, connected with the main bottom, adjacent the front open end of the receptacle and also connected with the side walls, the rear end of said false bottom being spaced from the rear wall of the container.

2. The structure specified in claim 1 with a handle adapted to support the container and secured thereto at a, point forward and above the center of gravity of the receptacle.

3. A device of the structure specified in claim 1 with a supporting leg, positioned adj acentthe front open end of the receptacle whereby the receptacle will be supported with the bottom inclining downwardly from the forward open end.

4;. A device of the structure specified in claim 1 in which the side and rear walls are flanged outwardly at their upper edge.

5. A device of the structure specified in claim 1, provided with a forwardly extending floor part, having beveled edges to pro vide a narrow front edge for the purposes specified.

6. An ice conveyor comprising a recepta- 4 cle having one side and top open, a bottom pocket opening only to the rear closed end of the receptacle, the upper edge of the receptacle being flared outwardly, supporting means by means of which the receptacle will stand with the bottom pocket inclining rearwardly and downwardly and lifting means, by means of which the receptacle will be suspended with the bottom bucket inclining downwardly and rearwardly.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOSEPH JACKSON PARKERSON. 

